Go Nuts Series

Live discussion of three different nut crops for southern Humboldt. Listeners call in to get nut trees in exchange for donations to KMUD.

Part 1: Hazelnuts. Chip Tittmann hosts a discussion with Liz Harwood and Carla Thomas about hazelnut varieties, mycorrhizal truffle symbionts, and coppicing with hazel. Air date: 7/21/20

Part 2: Chestnuts. Gray Shaw and Carla Thomas host a one-hour show about chestnuts’ potential as a local crop with guests Marty and Maureen Hobbs, who are planting seven acres of chestnut varieties at their Ettersburg farm. Carla covers the American chestnut’s natural history and blight starting at 32:11. Air date: 8/27/20

Part 3: Acorns. Melanie Mindlin of Siskyou Permaculture joins the show to answer questions about balanoculture—acorns as food—and shares her recipe for acorn cookies. Gray Shaw hosts. Air date: 10/28/20